diff --git a/.gitignore b/.gitignore
index f8a6236bb06..8a63f6d4a8f 100644
--- a/.gitignore
+++ b/.gitignore
@@ -3,7 +3,6 @@
 .sass-cache
 .gist-cache
 .pygments-cache
-_deploy
 public
 sass.old
 source.old
diff --git a/.gitmodules b/.gitmodules
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..e590545c1cb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/.gitmodules
@@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
+[submodule "_deploy"]
+	path = _deploy
+	url = https://github.com/balloob/home-assistant.git
+  branch = gh-pages
diff --git a/_deploy b/_deploy
new file mode 160000
index 00000000000..c04323351d3
--- /dev/null
+++ b/_deploy
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+Subproject commit c04323351d38c37fd8a9e2f5b731f9216873055c